Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit : Essays on Contemporary Theory /
In this collection of his essays and reviews, Ronald Beiner probes the boundaries of our social world and develops his own intellectual challenge to liberalism in a critical review of contemporary thinkers.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE: THE THEORIST AS CRITIC""; ""I: Liberalism and Hyper-Liberalism""; ""1 Liberalism in the Cross-Hairs of Theory""; ""2 The Proper Bounds of Self""; ""3 Reconciling Liberty and Equality""; ""4 Cruelty First""; ""5 Liberalism as Neutralism""; ""6 Revising the Self""; ""7 Liberalism, Pluralism, and Religion""; ""8 Richard Rorty's Liberalism""; ""9 Foucault's Hyper-Liberalism""; ""II: Interrogating Modernity""; ""10 Do We Need a Philosophical Ethics? Theory, Prudence, and the Primacy of Ethos""; ""11 Rescuing the Rationalist Heritage""; ""12 Accepting Finitude""
- ""13 Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Uncommenced Dialogue""""Appendix: Response from a Colleague, with a Rejoinder""; ""14 Eros and the Bourgeoisie""; ""15 Left-Wing Conservatism: The Legacy of Christopher Lasch""; ""16 Hermeneutical Generosity and Social Criticism""; ""17 Thin Ice""; ""III: Political Judgment Revisited""; ""18 Practical Wisdom""; ""19 Science and Wisdom""; ""20 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""